Brent Simmons is writing about a better common denominator among weblog editing software. I think he's right, we need to conosolidate those technologies and features which have become part of our everyday activity and are available on most platform in order to be able to move forward.

Brent and other developers should be spending their time thinking about the next big thing, not about how to keep compatibility with some old featureless app.

The challange is to gather enough consensus (mainly from vendors), decide to call this Blogosphere 2.0 and start thinking about version 3.0.